
Sabine Doring on Emotion
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The Relationship Between Emotions and Perception
In a sense, what you're saying is that the emotions and our reflection on them can give us a new kind of self-knowledge. And in the latter case, we might even say that emotions allow us to detect value. Do we detect value through our emotional reactions? Or do we create it through the feelings that we have? Well, I'm a value realist, I have to admit. I think we detect value, yes. You can see the color red and I can feel an appropriate anger at injustice. Yes, exactly. This is exactly the analogy I'm drawing. Even though I do not say that emotions are just sense perceptions or perceptions, but the way in which they
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